July 31, 2017

Happy birthday, Chautauqua, and welcome to your new party. For its 143rd birthday, Chautauqua Institution’s historic Old First Night, with the official portion of the celebration starting at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday in the Amphitheater, is

As young Catholics, Protestants and Jews continue to fall away in record numbers from the faith embraced by their parents and grandparents, there is one religious group that is retaining its young people and growing

John Gerber first encountered the trompe de chasse (“hunting horn”) while traveling in France. “I was so impressed hearing this instrument,” Gerber said. Being a professional French horn player, Gerber decided to give the trompe

Since Chautauqua’s newspaper, then called the Assembly Daily Herald, didn’t begin until 1876, the Assembly’s third year, it was not until Aug. 2, 1876 that we get a newspaper account of their anniversary celebration —